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SIXTY YEARS AGO
Poliomyelitis in Canada this year has hit hardest in Manitoba. A Canadian Press survey showed this province to date has had 142 cases. There have been five deaths.
The world’s largest group of trained lions and tigers was here today at the CNR Grounds when the gigantic Clyde Beatty three-ring railroad circus came to Brandon.
Crown Prince Hussein, 17-year-old student at an English prep school, became King of Jordan today. He was proclaimed after the Jordan parliament decreed the abdication of his father, King Talal, who has been certified insane and unfit to rule the Middle East country.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Russia today launched its third manned spaceship — the Vostok III — into orbit. The spaceship was piloted by Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and circled the globe every 88.5 minutes.
This week Brandon Sun fashion writer Kaye Rowe boarded a jet to Montreal for the closed showing of the National Collection of Union Label fashions. She will be reporting on all the new fashions in the upcoming Sun issues.
An initial payment of $1.50 a bushel for western wheat in the 1962-63 crop year — the first increases in this payment at the outset of a crop year since 1949-50 — was announced by Agricultural Minister Alvin Hamilton. The price is 10 cents a bushel higher than the initial price paid in the 1961-62 crop year.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The lure of winning and simple curiosity is drawing an average of 2,000 persons daily to the Manitoba Provincial Exhibition’s casino.
Dallas Dorchester ran a chuckwagon race yesterday at the Provincial Exhibition he won’t ever forget. Dorchester was driving Roland Pahal’s rig in the first of four chuckwagon heats, lost a rear wheel just after the start of the two-rig race, but he had a head start on the other wagon, driven by Bob Bell and he maintained that edge on three wheels — until he crossed the finish line.
Retiring Fire Chief Jack Carey received an authentic Indian headdress from His Worship Mayor Bill Wilton at an informal reception in Chief Carey’s honour last night at the Legion Hall.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is reviewing four applications for interest-free loans to construct up to 100 apartment rental units in Brandon.
The City of Brandon is satisfied with Simplot’s attempts to improve operations and will not make another presentation to the Clean Environment Commission.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Construction workers with Nelson River Construction and Talleau Construction replaced a north-south water line underneath the railroad tracks near 21st Street and Pacific Ave. The railway policy demands the water line be encased in a steel liner where it crosses under the tracks so it can be replaced quickly if there ever was a watermain break there.
The original wing of Earl Oxford Junior High School is undergoing an architectural review to see if it should be renovated or replaced. MCM Architects is beginning an inspection of the three-storey section this week.
TEN YEARS AGO
Consumers in Brandon and across the province will benefit from Hydro’s new deal with Xcel Energy, says Manitoba Hydro president Bob Brennan. The 10-year deal with Minnesota-based Xcel Energy will earn Manitoba Hydro $1.7 billion in revenue over the life of the contract and see 500 megawatts of electricity exported to Minnesota beginning in 2005. Manitoba Hydro already has contracts with Xcel, including a 12-year deal worth $1.4 billion US.
Motorists flocked to a Victoria Avenue service station to take advantage of cheaper gas prices yesterday afternoon. Prices dropped 10 cents per litre — to 64.9 — at some stations in the city.
The death of a Saskatchewan man from the human form of mad cow disease may be the first in Canada, but it won’t be the last, health officials warned yesterday. Antonio Giulivi, director of Health Canada’s health care acquired infections, said 100,000 Canadians a year travelled to Britain during the height of the mad cow outbreak so chances are there will be another case.
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition August 11, 2012
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SIXTY YEARS AGO
Poliomyelitis in Canada this year has hit hardest in Manitoba. A Canadian Press survey showed this province to date has had 142 cases. There have been five deaths.
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Poliomyelitis in Canada this year has hit hardest in Manitoba. A Canadian Press survey showed this province to date has had 142 cases. There have been five deaths.
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